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Suk

(also Pokot, Bawgott), a people inhabiting regions along the upper Turkwel River between Kenya and Uganda. Population in Kenya, 93,000 (1969 census); population in Uganda, 30,000 (estimate). The Marakwet, Endo, and Kadam peoples are related to the Suk. The Suk language belongs to the southeastern group of Nilotic languages. Religious beliefs include ancestor and nature worship; Christianity is also practiced. The chief occupations are terraced farming in the mountainous regions and cattle raising on the plains.

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A British artist participated in the Bratislava project too--the conductor Andrew Mogrelia, whose recordings of symphonic and orchestral works by Fibich, Novak and Suk had filled the gaps in the discography of the Naxos label.

Josef Suk's A Summer's Tale: Six decades of recordings

Sonstige Akteure (nicht direkt an SUK beteiligt): In der Region Freiburg finden sich zivilgesellschaftliche und andere private Netzwerke und Organisationen, die haufig auch uberregional agieren, unter anderem Forderverein Energie- und Solaragentur Regio Freiburg (fesa e.

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While at Nycomed, which was recently sold to Japan's Takeda (TYO:4502), Suk drove the company's growth in the Canadian gastrointestinal, respiratory and pain drug market and contributed to its success as one of the top ten best workplaces in Canada, a position Nycomed has held for several years.

John Suk joins Medical Futures board

Suk notes in her introduction that the chapters in her book share a similar aim: to reveal the shifting meanings of the home, indeed the deployment of the home, in criminal law.

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Ibrahim Gambari (R) visits Fanga Suk village, in East Jebel Marra (West Darfur), 88 km from Tawilla March 18, 2011.

DARFUR: UNAMID chief visits Jabal Marra, asked to act against aerial attacks

54 percent of Serm Suk with the rest held by Thai investors.

PepsiCo group buys 50 percent of Thai bottler Serm Suk

Based on these postulates, Hemphill and Suk acknowledge that

The piracy paradox revisited

Suk and his team of institute scientists and academic partners are working 14 to 20 hours a day to pull in data from federal agencies such as the EPA, the CDC, and OSHA in order to create what he calls a "national model that can track environmental health, both for the short-term use of responders and cleanup crews and long-term assessment of health consequences.

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Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy will sign a letter of condolences and support today to tsunami victims in and around the community of Baan Suk Samran, Thailand.

Holt agencies to help victims of tsunami

Fukie Chimura has given the information to families of other abductees, the sources said, adding that Suk Ki might be Kim Suk Ki, who is believed to have underwent spy training along with former North Korean agent Kim Hyon Hui.

Abductee Yokota may have taught Japanese to N. Korean agent

Suk was buying the paper and peed on his trouser leg.

The Dictionary of the Khazars (excerpts)

Each of the three authors is treated individually, and deliberately so, as Jeannie Suk tries to trace the chronological development of this literary tradition.